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A British Pakistani actor from the popular TV soap Coronation Street has been fired after sending out a “racially offensive” tweet about Indian people. Pakistan-born Marc Anwar, 45, who has played the role of Sharif Nazir on the ITV show, was sacked after his tweets were revealed by the Sunday …

The ex-husband and father of a British-Pakistani woman suspected to be the victim of an ‘honour killing’ appeared in a Pakistani court today after being arrested by police. Samia Shahid, 28, from Bradford, died last month during a visit to her family village in Punjab. Shahid’s ex-husband, Muhammad Shakeel, and …

The husband of a British woman who was killed in Pakistan called for the UK and Pakistani governments to ensure his wife received justice Thursday, as he sought to keep the spotlight on so-called honour killings. Mukhtar Kazam presented a copy of the post-mortem report into his wife Samia Shahid’s …

Pakistani lawmakers have withdrawn a proposal to impose harsher penalties on those who arrange child marriages after it was scuttled by a religious body who branded it “blasphemous” and against Islam. The proposal, which would also have raised the legal age of marriages for females from 16 to 18, called …

Worshippers at the infamous Red Mosque in the Pakistani capital Islamabad still gather in their hundreds for Friday prayers, but the fiery sermons calling for Sharia law led by hardline cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz are now a thing of the past. The preacher, who once led a week-long armed conflict …

Pakistan refused to allow about 30 migrants deported from Greece to get off a plane at Islamabad on Thursday, a week after talks with the European Union to settle a dispute over forced repatriations. The charter plane later took off with the rejected returnees still aboard, after 19 others whom …

A German court on Tuesday sentenced a Pakistan-born couple to life in jail for the “honour killing” of their 19-year-old daughter, who had had sex before marriage. The 52-year-old father was found guilty of strangling the teenager to death, and the 41-year-old mother was also jailed, as an accessory to …

Pakistan executed four men on Wednesday for involvement in the massacre of 134 children at an army-run school in the north western city of Peshawar last year, media and security sources said. The hangings were the first executions of civilians convicted by Pakistan’s military courts, which were set up after …

“Are these the people with bullets who took my papa away?” two-year-old Sabiha Ahmad asked her mother anxiously when AFP visited her family, members of Pakistan’s persecuted Ahmadi minority, who are currently living in hiding. The toddler’s family have had little contact with anyone since they were forced to flee …

Pakistan is set to execute a disabled man as activists said it was nearing its 300th hanging in under a year, with Amnesty International slamming Islamabad Tuesday for “shamefully sealing its place among the world’s worst executioners”. The execution of Abdul Basit, a paraplegic who was convicted of murder in …